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diff --git a/doc/tips/convert_MoinMoin_and_TWiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn b/doc/tips/convert_MoinMoin_and_TWiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn index 5565dbd8a..b9bad18bc 100644 --- a/doc/tips/convert_MoinMoin_and_TWiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn +++ b/doc/tips/convert_MoinMoin_and_TWiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,25 @@ [[JoshTriplett]] has developed scripts to convert MoinMoin and TWiki wikis to ikiwikis backed by a git repository, including full history. For details, see [[his_user_page|JoshTriplett]]. + +> I have worked on porting this to more recent MoinMoin versions, optimising it and making sure it works reliably even on big wikis with funky things. +> +> git clone git://src.anarcat.ath.cx/moin2iki +> +> List of improvements: +> +>* full rewrite of git migration tool to support latest MoinMoin versions (tested with 1.9.x) +>* uses `git fast-import` to improve performance (10 minutes and 200M of ram for a 7 years old 2GB Moinmoin wiki) +>* more reliable as it uses the per-page edit log +>* consistent: multiple runs will generate the same repository +>* re-entrant: can be run multiple times to import new changes +> +> Look at the `moin2git2` script for most of my work, which really consisted on importing the MoinMoin pages into git reliably. Now I am rewriting the MoinMoin parser to generate markdown directly instead of going through HTML, because I want to support translating the macros too. +> +> Big things missing: +> +> * lots of macros are not translated +> * a bunch of markup and exotic uses of parsers will probably fail? +> * [[todo/internal_definition_list_support/]] +> * [[todo/do_not_make_links_backwards/]] +> * fix up documentation and make sure all the pieces go into place |